[kellyhound]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. A man tells for the first time about a traffic stop involving a Tennessee state trooper.

Richard Laude said he told Trooper Jimmy Knowles he had the wrong guy when he was pulled over for speeding, but he said he was cited and even roughed up anyway.

Laude was pulled from his motorcycle by a Tennessee state trooper following a traffic stop on Oct. 4.
"I kept telling him, 'You have pulled over the wrong vehicle. It wasn't us,'" Laude said.

Laude was on his motorcycle with girlfriend Angela Cousens.

Knowles is under investigation.

"We're looking at the situation as a whole," said Col. Mike Walker of the Tennessee Highway Patrol. "We need to know everything involved in that traffic stop."

That night, Knowles said he clocked about a half-dozen motorcyclists speeding on Interstate 40 in Wilson County. He said they were going at least 133 mph.

Laude said he saw the speeding motorcycles, too, but wasn't part of the group.

"Another motorcycle passed me in excess of 130 miles per hour on the shoulder," said Laude.

The pursuit had gone on for nearly 30 miles when Knowles spotted Laude and pulled him over. Lebanon police cruiser video shows Laude on the side of the interstate.

"He instantly jerked me off the motorcycle, threw me onto the ground. He put his knee in my back," Laude said.

The video only shows Laude being pulled from his motorcycle.

Laude wasn't arrested, but he said the reckless endangerment citation could force him to lose his commercial driver's license. He's been driving trucks for more than 20 years.

The THP is investigating what happened, but Laude said he wants his day in court and Knowles off the job.

Cousens said Knowles forced her to sign a false statement about what happened.

Knowles has been with the THP for six years with no disciplinary problems.

[peter]

the fucking police are a law unto themselves,id have been jailed if id assaulted a biker like that

[güttsfükk]

no reason to drag him off that bike like that he blatantly wasn't resisting or anything, he had his hands up in the air

[shmagmiepen]

cops are becoming thugs

[ThatsNasty]

Originally Posted by shmagmiepen ↗

cops are becoming thugs

Cops are worse,they police us with the governing laws yet they always seem to bend it for their own purposes.

Like the a cop in the city i live, fact she used to grow and sell weed, she was selling to junior high kids, yet she is still a cop.


FTP!

[vermin666]

Mother fuckers always think they are right

[e-ville]

i have alot of police officers in my family, and those guys in the video give them all a bad name and make me ashamed.

i hope he gets everything he asks for, not just because I ride a motorcycle. but because its the right thing.

One of my friends was assaulted by the police and spent a few nights in jail because of something similar, he was riding with a friend in the wrong place at the wrong time and suffered injuries and huge court costs because of it, the two assholes that ran and passed them got away.

and they wonder why 75% of riders run, because they go out of their way to profile us when they see us out minding our own business

[becca320]

I hate cops that try to act all big and bad. Even if he was speeding there was no reason to pull him off of his bike like that.

[Steve]

Cops

[johngotti337]

ha ha